Senior DevOps Engineer
Insight
Edinburgh, UK
3 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
10 years minimum
Compensation
£86,337.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Kubernetes Security
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Application Release Automation
Automation of Tests
Cloud Computing
Cloud Database
Cloud Engineering
Cloud Storage
Configuration Management
Static Program Analysis
Encodings
Cyber Security
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Continuous Integration
DevOps
Elasticsearch
Github
Monitoring of Systems
Identity and Access Management
OAuth
Systems Development Life Cycle
Release Management
Reliability Engineering
Prometheus
JSON Web Token
Openapi
Data Logging
Google Cloud
Cloud Monitoring
Istio
Grafana
Software Security
Apigee
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Gitlab-ci
Git Flow
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Deployment Automation
Enterprise Integration
Api Gateway
Restful APIs
Terraform
Marketplace
Devsecops
Api Management
Serverless Computing
Docker
Elk Stack
Jenkins
Vulnerability Analysis
Job description
Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure, primarily on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and reusable infrastructure modules.
- Build self-service platform capabilities for efficient infrastructure provisioning and management by engineering teams.
- Implement infrastructure standards, governance controls, and automation frameworks across multiple environments.
CI/CD & Release Engineering
- Design, build, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and Harness.
- Drive deployment automation, release management, environment provisioning, and configuration management.
- Improve deployment reliability via progressive delivery, automated testing, and deployment guardrails.
- Champion GitOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices across engineering teams.
Cloud Architecture & Operations
- Provide technical leadership on cloud architecture, best practices, and operational excellence.
- Support cloud-native services including GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, Apigee, VPC Networking, IAM, and Cloud Monitoring.
- Design resilient and observable systems aligned to enterprise security and reliability standards.
API Platform & Marketplace Enablement
- Build and maintain infrastructure supporting enterprise API platforms and external marketplace services.
- Enable secure onboarding of internal and external API consumers.
- Establish standardized deployment and operational processes for API products and services.
- Support API gateway technologies (e.g., Apigee) and enterprise integration platforms.
- Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
- Improve platform availability, scalability, and performance through automation and engineering improvements.
Monitoring & Observability
- Implement enterprise monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, Google Cloud Monitoring, ELK/Elastic Stack, and OpenTelemetry.
- Proactively identify issues before they impact customers and engineering teams.
- Develop dashboards and operational reporting for platform health and reliability.
DevSecOps & Security
- Embed security best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
- Integrate automated vulnerability scanning, code analysis, policy enforcement, and compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines.
- Partner with Cyber Security teams to ensure compliance with internal and regulatory requirements.
- Support implementation of secure identity and access management controls across cloud platforms.
Operational Excellence
- Lead resolution of complex production incidents and service disruptions.
- Continuously improve operational procedures, runbooks, and platform support processes.
- Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve service reliability.
- Identify opportunities for cloud cost optimization while maintaining performance and resilience.
Mentoring & Leadership
- Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices across the engineering community.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, testers, platform teams, and product owners.
- Drive engineering excellence through knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and continuous learning.
Requirements
10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
- Significant experience operating highly available production systems at enterprise scale, especially on GCP.
- Expert-level knowledge of Terraform and building reusable infrastructure modules/automation frameworks.
- Strong hands-on experience with GCP services (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, VPC Networking, IAM, Secret Manager, Cloud Storage, Cloud Monitoring).
- Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, container security, service mesh technologies, and managing production Kubernetes environments.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Harness; ArgoCD desirable).
- Deep understanding of GitOps, deployment strategies, release automation, and configuration management.
- Experience with API Gateway technologies (Apigee, Azure API Management, Kong desirable) and API security standards (REST, OpenAPI, OAuth2, JWT).
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Monitoring).
- Strong scripting and automation skills.
- Experience in embedding security and compliance into cloud and DevOps workflows.
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